5: Emma Coburn - So Much Sweeter
C Tolle Run
C Tolle Run
4.7 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Carrie interviews American record holder and Olympic bronze medalist Emma Coburn! Emma reflects on her 2016 accomplishments, her change in coaches, and her photo shoot for the ESPN Body Issue.
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| 0:29.5 | Hi, I'm Olympian Carrie Tullifson, and welcome to the C-Tolly Run podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | Today I'm interviewing Emma Colburn. |
| 0:36.6 | Emma is a beast at the 3,000 meter steeplechase. |
| 0:40.0 | She's an American record holder and was also the first American woman to win an Olympic |
| 0:44.1 | medal in the event, clinching the bronze in 2016. I loved catching up with her in this interview. |
| 0:50.5 | So let's get after it. |
| 0:56.4 | So this is a big year for you. |
| 1:01.4 | Well, 2016 was a huge year, but coming into 2017, you've already had some big things. |
| 1:08.0 | So we've got a new coach, a new fiancé, same guy, new world record. You have a new medal from last year. |
| 1:10.8 | You know, you really are like flying high |
| 1:13.5 | right now, aren't you? Life is good and I'm really happy. Um, 2016 went as perfectly as I could have |
| 1:23.1 | imagined, um, you know, running fast and getting a medal or two, you know, at the beginning of the |
| 1:31.9 | year, breaking the American record and running fast mattered a lot. And then running, you know, |
| 1:39.8 | hoping for a bronze medal. That was also a big to do, you know, leading into the season. And so |
| 1:46.0 | to accomplish both was huge. And it was just an incredible year. And I learned a lot throughout. |
| 1:54.5 | I was dealing with some injury leading into the season and, you know, was able to get through that and learn a lot kind of about |
| 2:03.0 | my body and about what keeps me healthy and, you know, learn that I can be a little tougher |
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